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Alexander Pope (1688 — 1744) Alexander Pope was born in London as the son of Alexander Pope, a Roman Catholic linen-merchant, and Edith (Turner) Pope. At that time Catholics suffered from repressive legislation and prejudices – they were not allowed to enter any universities or held public employment. Thus Pope had an uneven education, which was often interrupted. He was largely educated at home. Pope’s aunt taught him to read. Latin...
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October 24, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) Aldous Huxley was the English novelist and critic, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World (1931). Besides novels, he published travel books, histories, poems, plays, and essays on philosophy, arts, sociology, religion and morals. Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey on July 26, 1894, into a well-to-do upper-middle-class family He first studied at Eton College, Berkshire (1908 -1913). At the age of 16,...
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October 24, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) Agatha Christie prolific British Author. Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, in the county of Devon, as the daughter of Frederick Alvah Miller and Clarissa Miller. Her father died when she was a child. Christie was educated at home, where her mother encouraged her to write from a very early age. At sixteen she was sent to school in Paris where she studied singing and piano. In...
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October 24, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Abraham Cowley (1618 -1667) Abraham Cowley (pronounced Cooley) was born in London, the posthumous son of a wealthy London stationer. He was educated at Westminster School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his BA in 1639, was made fellow in 1640, and became MA in 1643. Cowley published his first volume of verse, Poetical Blossoms (1633), when he was 15. The collection consisted of five poems, one of which...
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China Today Outlines: China’s Premier has called upon the lawmakers of the country to rekindle Beijing’s continued war on corrupt officials, branding graft a shameful abuse of public trust and a “matter of life and death for China”. Addressing the opening session of the 8th National People’s Congress, he said in an emotional appeal: “The power in our hands is given by the people and it must not be misused. We...
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September 5, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), Languages1 Comment
Collapse Of Communism Outlines: The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union, and the consequent political disintegration of the latter must rank as the greatest upheaval the world has experienced in the second half of the 20th century. So sudden and swift was this collapse, that even the most astute political observers and intelligence agencies were caught by surprise. And it happened without any profound cause, like...
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September 5, 2017 evirtualguru_ajaygourEnglish (Sr. Secondary), LanguagesNo Comment
Shape of Human Rights in The Indian Subcontinent Outlines : Nations of South Asia have commonly suffered under centuries of exploitation, of man by man, to such an extent that the society has come to terms with human suffering. The archaic laws of the former rulers, the fragile democracy and repressive regimes, all added to the woes of the people. Despite constitutional guarantees, only a negligible number of complaints reach the...
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The Processes and Precedents of U.N. Peacekeeping Outlines: It is one thing to maintain peace between two sovereign States and a totally different thing to get involved in a civil war situation, as has happened in the case of Somalia or Bosnia. One may go back a little to 1962 when a serious situation arose between Indonesia and the Netherlands, in regard to a former Dutch colony in South-East Asia called...
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